Rinaldo Walcott, “The Black Atlantic: On Water, Art, and Black Movement,” Webinar, University of Western Cape, August 21, 2020.
Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, trans. Joan Pinkham (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2001), 73.
Mark Wigley, “Prosthetic Theory: The Disciplining of Architecture,” Assemblage 15 (August 1991): 6–29.
Vanessa Watts, “Indigenous Place-Thought and Agency Amongst Humans and Non-humans (First Woman and Sky Woman Go on a European World Tour!),” Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society 2, no. 1 (2013): 20–34.
W. E. B. Du Bois, “Chapter 5: Of the Wings of Atalanta,” The Souls of Black Folk; Essays and Sketches (Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1903), 94.
“I think one of the things that was important for me was the question of the polyphonic. Stuart Hall was a quintessentially polyphonic figure who was very comfortable with situating his arguments at a variety of crossroads… In other words, the ability to marshal an array of voices or at different registers, shall we say, in the service of a broader ideal, which is not reducible to its components.” See John Akomfrah in conversation with Fawz Kabra, “John Akomfrah,” Ocula, July 5, 2018, ➝.
Denise Ferreira Da Silva, “1 (life) ÷ 0 (blackness) = ∞ - ∞ or ∞ /∞: On Matter Beyond the Equation of Value,” e-flux Journal 79, February 2017.
See Mabel O. Wilson, “Mine Not Yours,” e-flux Architecture, July 4, 2018; also see Mabel O. Wilson and Mario Gooden, “Enclosure: Global Africa Lab in conversation with Justin Moore,” African Mobilities 2.0, July 20, 2020, ➝. In addition, one of the authors (Emanuel Admassu) was grateful to participate in small group workshops facilitated by Mabel O. Wilson and Mario Gooden, with Zachary Fabri, Mwenya Kabwe and Mpho Matsipa, Enclosures: Blackness and Transmutation for The Sojourner Project. Those two sessions have clarified a lot of the ideas explored in this essay.
When asked if one could differentiate between capitalism and white supremacy, Fred Moten responds: “The relationship between capitalism and white supremacy is asymptotic. They’re different from one another, I think, but they are infinitely close to one another.” See Woodbine NYC, “A Conversation with Fred Moten 12/02/2018,” YouTube, December 3, 2018, ➝.
Ibid.
Cameron Rowland, D37 Pamphlet (Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2018), ➝.
Tavia Nyong’o describes afro-fabulation as “a non-concept (that) can also be thought in musical terms as a “ghost note”—the unplayed note that is virtually heard by the trained and expectant ear—then this way of ending the text is just an exercise in getting a little more comfortably familiar with the sound, sight, and presence of ghosts, phantoms, and other impulses and affects that shape and stir the scene of black performance.” See Tavia Nyong’o, “Conclusion,” Afro-fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life (New York: NYU Press, 2018), 202.
Interview with Denise Ferreira Da Silva, “Mapping Pan-Africanism Onto Blackness: The Continent, The Diaspora, and Beyond,” The Funambulist 32, November–December 2020, 16, ➝.
Nettrice R. Gaskins, “Deep Sea Dwellers: Drexciya and the Sonic Third Space,” Shima 10 (November 2016): 69.
Nyong’o, “Conclusion,” 202.
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019), 11.
K. Wayne Yang, “Sustainability as Plantation Logic, Or, Who Plots an Architecture of Freedom?” e-flux architecture, October 6, 2020, ➝.
The Humanities Institute at UCSC, “Ruth Wilson Gilmore: ‘Organized Abandonment and Organized Violence: Devolution and the Police’ 11.9.15,” Vimeo, November 9, 2015, ➝.
See “Project Goals,” Atlanta BeltLine, ➝.
Phillip J. Turner et al., “Memorializing the Middle Passage on the Atlantic seabed in Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction,” Marine Policy 122 (October 2020): 3.
Ibid., 4.